Priority given to missing links, feeder roads: MP

By PETER WARI
WELL-LINKED feeder roads in rural areas make life easier for subsistence farmers, public servants and small and medium entrepreneurs (SME), says Tambul-Nebilyer MP Win Bakri Daki.
Daki, who is also the Correctional Services Minister, told a packed crowd at Mt Giluwe High School on Friday that he was giving priority to missing link roads to be constructed.
He said his five priorities were road, school, rural electrification, water supply and health.
However, road was on top of the agenda as it is like arteries through which the economy pulses.
“When we have a good network of road in the district, it will make life easier for farmers to transport their produce to markets and teachers and health workers will come with their families to live with us,” he said.
“Many times, our educated elites visit their families during holidays and come on private or hire vehicles, but leave them at roadsides and they walk miles to go to their villages.”
Daki said he was giving priority to education because the district did not have oil, gas or gold mines.
He wanted the district to produce many human resources and they would return to their villages on a good road and stop at their villages.
Daki said communities lack vital services and he was slowly looking into people’s needs.
He said people needed good water supply system and better health services.
Electricity will change their village way of living, Daki said.
“It will change their mindset.”